Revolt: When It Rains

Kevin Clancy, Kate Grumke, Zach Toombs , Zach Toombs

10:49 AM, Oct 9, 2017

3:40 PM, Oct 11, 2017

Photo Credit: Newsy / Kevin Clancy

The future of American energy will shape the future of our climate. That's clearer now than ever, as researchers link the greenhouse gases pumped into our atmosphere to the Earth's increasingly severe droughts, floods and extreme weather events.

Our new series "Revolt" explores these issues in a fresh context that's focused on Middle America. This is the first of six episodes that will debut weekly every Monday.

- "What we see in the projected climate toward the end of the century if we keep using fossil fuels and add more greenhouse gases to the atmosphere, is that regions that don't normally experience drought, something that might be a once in a 50-year event, could happen a couple times a decade." — NASA